Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier, still its most influential citizen, was given a royal welcome in Moscow last week. He came away aglow at the "astonishing hospitality. As for the leaders of the Soviet government I have been privileged to meet, I am able to see their dynamism, clairvoyance, realism, charming simplicity of manner, remarkable comprehension of international relations and understanding of the aspirations of the Asian peoples." He gratefully accepted a Soviet offer to build and staff a hospital in the Cambodian capital, and invited the Soviet leaders to visit his country. B. & K. as gratefully accepted...
President Pusey said that the new positions recognize the University's continuing interest in education through television and also "record for television a college course of instruction selected for both its intellectual content and the excellence of its manner of presentation...
Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner. Done by Scottish Immigrant John Smibert, it shows a Royalist politician whose bland, irresolute features bode ill for his future fame. After Wanton became Governor of Rhode Island, he fought with soft talk the stirrings of the American Revolution, and retired the moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became...
Defensible Partiality. The student does not learn history, chemistry or literature in the traditional manner. He uses appropriate smatterings of these only to answer questions that the majority has agreed to ask. In the secondary school these questions are threshed out in discussion and study groups twice a day, but over the years, all these questions should lead up to the central theme of the school: "Where do we as a people want to go?" The student might learn about art by exploring topics such as: Should radio and TV be owned by the state so as to provide more...
Lady Sings the Blues has the tone of truth. Whether it is Singer Holiday's own style or Journalist-Friend William Dufty's professional hand, the book's deadpan manner is a little chilling. No matter how it is told, hers is a chilling story. Billie sings a sad, sad song...